The girl never really lived, and so she has never really died.

When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

Man is a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex, multiform creature that bears within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh is tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.

I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.